Situation Report
Violent Incidents In Southern Thailand/Patani
Quarter 2/2018
Deep South Watch
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Overall Situation
During the third quarter of 2018 there was a total of 102 violent incidents in Thailand’s conflict affected southern border provinces. This is a decrease of 22 percent compared to the previous quarter the same year. The violent incidents led to a total of 103 casualties, which is also a decrease since the second quarter. The casualties include 56 deaths and 47 injuries. The month of July saw the lowest number of incidents and deaths during the third quarter with 29...

Situation Report
Violent Incidents In Southern Thailand/Patani
Quarter 2/2018
Deep South Watch
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Overall Situation
Based on Deep South Watch monitoring of the situation, there was a total of 193 violent incidents in the conflict affected Thai southern border provinces in the second quarter of 2018. This is a 24% increase compared to the first quarter the same year. This led to a total of 65 deaths and 63 injuries. At 110, the month of May had the highest number of incidents. This was a substantial increase from April with only 36 violent events. In June there was a total of 47 acts...

On 25/2/2018 I published an article : The Peace Dialogue Process - Third year (2017) - https://deepsouthwatch.org/en/node/11704 . It began something like this :
"My previous article on the peace process (https://www.deepsouthwatch.org/node/9977 ) ended with a high expectation that the Safety Zone implementation would be put on trial as a pilot project by the first half of 2017. However that never materialized. If anything, it goes to show that a peace process is always unpredictable, fragile and never without obstacles."
The peace dialogue was indeed not very smooth throughout 2018...

(This is the continuation of the last article : PEACE TALK AT CROSSROAD, AGAIN - https://deepsouthwatch.org/th/node/11829 )
At last the dust has settled. After the landslide victory of the Coalition of Hope led by the former Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamed over the incumbent National Front under the leadership of Najib Razak, the Malaysian government finally terminated the Facilitator's contract . The ex-Inspector General of Police , Tan Sri Rahim Noor was named the new facilitator in early August 2018, amidst the protests by some Malaysian politicians and Patani activists , based on his...